David Du Plessis Recordings

Rev. David Du Plessis

(1905 - 1987)

"The Healing Ministry

 and the Gifts"

Rev. David Du Plessis

Copyrighted Recording

Length:  82 Minutes

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Recording Description:

    I would urge every pastor, prophet, and healing evangelist, along with everyone who wants to see more healings and miracles to listen to this recording.  Although recorded in 1962, it is as timely as though it were recorded yesterday.  

    Brother Du Plessis tells of Pentecost coming to his home country of South Africa through the ministry of John G. Lake, and the persecution Du Plessis and other early Pentecostals suffered for believing in tongues and healing. 

     Drawing from his experiences of being filled with the Spirit in the early 1900's, ministering with Wigglesworth and other of the early Pentecostal giants, he makes some truly thought provoking observations about why he believes healing and miracles have become less common in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches.  He gives us much to think about.

     He brings out how the more people in local congregations quit praying for healing and began leaving it up to healing evangelists to do, the more the Spirit waned.  He was an eyewitness to the early days of the Pentecostal Outpouring and he states, "Everyone who got healed, became a healer and began to minister to others . . . And I think sometimes we would keep our healing if we would witness more about it, and get others healed.  Just like we would keep our Pentecostal experience if we would keep witnessing about it and keep praying in tongues.  Then we would hold on to the blessing.  Oh yes, we certainly were tongues speakers and healers . . .We never had any idea of healing evangelists in those days--we didn't need them.  Everybody was a healer."

     He asks, "What is our problem, really?"  Brother David teaches extensively on the gifts of healings.  He addresses the question, "How do we account for people who are not healed?"  Notes that, "I've seen more miracles among sinners than among saints."  He also gives instructions on receiving communion.  He shares also the conditions saints must meet in order to be healed.

     He answers a question or two and prays at the end of this recording.  Then some additional comments are tacked on to the end.

     Here's your opportunity to hear from a giant of the faith.

 Who Was David Du Plessis?

     Mostly forgotten today, David Du Plessis was a man mightily used of God to bring to pass the Charismatic Renewal.  He was Born in 1905 in South Africa, saved in 1916 and filled with the Spirit in 1918.  Brother David was ordained in 1928 thorugh the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa.  Then when he came to America in the late 1940's, he transferred his ordination to the Assemblies of God.

     Early in his Christian walk, Brother Du Plessis, like many early Pentecostals, suffered a great deal of persecution and criticism from the liberal denominations and the Catholic Church.  He had no intentions of ever ministering anywhere but in the Pentecostal churches he loved.  But God had a different plan for him.

     In 1936, Smith Wigglesworth prophesied to David that God would use him to usher in a mighty move of God's Spirit that would take place in the old-line "liberal" denominations.  David made no attempt to cause this to happen.  But in the late 1950's, God began opening doors for him among  liberal churches and in the Catholic church.

     David took the message of the baptism in the Holy Spirit into these circles and found many hungry hearts among the Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals.  David willingly laid aside his prejudices against the liberal denominations and the Catholic Church as he discovered that his feelings were wrong.  He learned many precious lessons along the way as God used him to bring the Baptism in the Holy Spirit into tradition-bound Christian groups.  

     Brother David was mightily persecuted, criticized, and misunderstood for crossing the denominational line and reaching out to Christians in the old denominations.  His ordination was revoked by the Assemblies of God, and he was denounced from many pulpits.  But as is true with any genuine servant of God who is obeying the Lord's will, God saw him through the persecution and rejection, and vindicated him at the end.  The Assemblies of God later reinstated his papers as they understood better what God was doing through him.  And the Catholic Church and the liberal denominations so loved and appreciated him for bringing to them the knowledge of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, that by the time of his Homegoing in 1987, they had come to call him by the affectionate title of "Mr. Pentecost." 

     I urge all ministers to listen closely to Brother David's recordings on this site.  They are full of wisdom about how to minister in the power of the Spirit, how to reach people, and how to stay true to God so that you finish your ministry in glory and not in shame. 

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